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Implementing caring for people
 — home and away: a review of recent research evidence to explain why some elderly people enter residential care homes while others stay at home
Author(s)R William Warburton
Corporate AuthorPersonal Social Services Research Unit - PSSRU, University of Kent
PublisherHMSO, London, 1994
Pages69 pp
SourceBAPS, Health Publications Unit, Storage & Distribution Centre, Heywood Stores, Manchester Road, Heywood, Lancashire OL10 2PZ.
KeywordsAdmission [care homes] ; Services ; Community care.
AnnotationExamines the reasons why some older people are helped to remain at home while others enter residential care. Major factors associated with admission to residential care include limited user choice, living arrangements, increasing impairment and disability, lack of community services and ineffective assessment and care management.
Accession NumberCPA-941111010
ClassmarkKW:QKH: I: PA

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